A LattE Literacy Going on

3rd grade Reading, Writing and Social Studies Curriculum

Independent Readers / Self-Selected Texts / Genre: students will learn a variety of

genres such as: traditional literature, information, realistic fiction, mystery, poetry, and historical fiction.

Mini-Lessons over Comprehension Strategies: comprehension is key to being a successful reader in 3rd grade. Our mini lesson will target specific comprehension strategies for students to continuously use throughout the year.

Reading Routines: Literature Groups, Book Clubs, Guided Reading, Indep. Reading, Word/Vocab Work: These are all building blocks to increase comprehension and fluency for your child.

READING HOMEWORK: Our primary focus for reading at home is to build endurance for reading over a period of time. We want your child to be able to concentrate on a text for a period of time. This will look different for each child and that’s ok.

Reading Workshop

Bluebonnet Books (5 by January) *optional: these books can be checked out in our

Beck library. Ask Mrs. Martin and she can direct you to our bluebonnet section. Bluebonnet books are books that are chosen by the state of Texas. The are books that receive an honor for their roll in educating children through literature.

Speeding To Read (25 Stickers) please see the guidelines on our Beck website.

Reading Assessments /Individual Goals– Reading level & Comprehension throughout the year.

DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) given three times a year September, January, and end of April. DRA determines your child's reading level, fluency, and comprehension.

Individual Goals: Your child will be creating goals for themselves to improve in the areas of reading and writing.

Reading Workshop

Writing Process: students will learn idea generation, the difference

between revising and editing, and how to create effective leads and endings.

Narrative and Informational Texts: students will write personal narratives and informational texts with a purpose in mind.

Journals, Responses to reading, and Prompts

Writing Benchmark: students will write to a prompt and be scored on our Analytic rubric. This rubric is to determine their stage of writing and what goals and strategies they need to work on for improvement.

Writing Workshop

Rubric Assessments: student writing pieces will be

scored on our analytic rubric and sent home.

Writing Portfolio – Cumulative Progress over the Year

Writing Workshop

Grammar, correcting sentences for meaning.

Spelling patterns/Word work/High-Frequency words

Word Morphology: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, Multiple-Meaning Words

Spelling lists- in their planner weekly and on our website

Skills Block

Integrated into the Language Arts Curriculum

(biographies, contributors to society, scientists, inventors, national/local heroes, etc.)

Communities Map Skills *taught during the 1st 6 weeks* Globe Research project at the end of the year.

Social Studies

May- Math STAAR – Timed, 4 hours May– Reading STAAR – Timed, 4 hours STAAR is about stamina, endurance, focus on the text and

problem solving. Our main focus is to build stamina in reading as of now. We want

your children to be able to sustain reading as long as they can. Each stamina will look different for your child.

STAAR